August 2014

Welcome to August!  Here are some pictures from our month.  The above picture was taken by Randy on a Motorcycle ride that he took in August.  Love it!

Luckily all of our cousins stayed for the week after the reunion we had at the end of July.  Here are all of them except Kyla.  She was gone camping at Glacier with two other cousins for the weekend.
(Boyd, Colter, Monte, Grady, Emma, Tyler, Maya, Kendra, Melita, Sarah)

For my 38th birthday, my kids made me a wonderful breakfast in bed...

 And my dear mother made me dinner!  I am the luckiest girl ever!

 We made two trips up to Lake Koocanusa during August, to spend some time with a bunch of our Canadian friends who were camped out up there.  We had a great time.  Here is our friend Berwin giving the kids a sail on his catamaran...

 And Kyla finally got to meet her friend Saffron, who she has been emailing for a while.  She lives far, far up North and its really amazing that they actually got the meet.  An awesome surprise!!!

Then we got to meet our friends Dee, Erica and Dawson down at a beautiful place on Flathead Lake for a picnic supper one evening...

 

And Maya got to go home with Erica for a few days, to spend some time on her ranch.  They had so much fun together...

We went to the county fair in August.  Here is Melita learning how to spin wool into yarn...

 Here are the Maya, Kyla and Colter on a ride...

It was also Kyla's birthday in August!  She turned 14!

She and Elise spent the weekend together...

As usual, we spent the last week of summer vacation, before school started, camping in Glacier Park... 

 Grandpa and Grandma camped with us too.  The guys went back and forth to work from where we were camped.  Grandma, the kids and I enjoyed our days up in the park.  Here we are at Jammers...

A quiet evening in the trailer...

Also in August, Colter and Randy made these RC airplanes and had fun flying them.  They have been crashed multiple times but are easy to fix and get flying again...

Last but not least, we enjoyed all the garden goodness.  We cut way back on the garden this year but still had plenty to enjoy!..

That pretty much sums up August.  Now its beyond the middle of October, and it's been beautiful here this month.  Today the temp is 74 degrees!  So nice!

Have a good one, Alison